Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-08-08
General News Items.

Buffalo Bill has received ! horseshoe
pin Set with diamonds from the Prince O
| Wales
Frank Brown. weII-knOwn farmer
who weighed +23 pounds, said to be
the largest man in New Hampshire, died
| suddenly Aug Ist-
1 Chaaucy VI. Depew and ex-Goyerner
Alger Cf Michigan went 10 Europe 70 Sc
/ cure the aid OF English capital in building
3 new trunk line across the continent.
/ 4 collision on bridge near Hopedale.
/ III, on the Alton road, between q con-
structiOn and freight-train, resulted in
the death Of i've men and injury 70 seven
I others
| 4 party OF i've girls Al Cohoes, y. Y.
/ had q thrilling experience AZ boatinz- four
OF them being carried over dam, while
I the fifth leaped into the water before the
boat went over.
Damage ~ frt->het in Green River Val
I lev. Mass, l. more Widespread than AZ
first supposed Crops were ruined. build
[ ibzS swept away and the roads washed in
every direction
Senator Stanford president OF the Cen
trail Pacific railroad. testified before the
Investigating commission al San Francis
CO. He figured out that the government
owed the road SIS. 90, O00- The commits
sion .as astOunded-
Severe storms are reported from Dako-
IA and Minnesota The wind blew eighty
miles Al hOur and did mich damage. A
tornado struck the town orMoland, MINI,
blowing down houses and injurinz many
people, one person fatally
On the HoOk>ett branch OF the Concord
railway, recently, the mixed and passen-
ger trains cOllided, wrecking many freight
cars and killing George French, the ex-
press messenger, and Frank Barney. q
brakeman, besides iujuring many Others.
The Kentucky election was held Mon
day. Returns from the interior Of the
state 20 far Indicate very large republican
gains Returns from kentOn county part
Of Carlisle district, including COviugtOn,
show that the union labor party poIled
much larger vote than the republicans,
the democrats polling about the usual
vote Prohibition i defeated il Jefferson
county, including Louisville
The decrease Of the public debt during
the month o. July was 81 81 594 -, the
debt les the cash in the treasury being
8. "a SO ~ 70 al the close Of The month.
The total cash in the treasury July 81 was
s456, 3O4 -3sI-57. The total gold 10 the
treasury was s25I. ZS6. 4I745 and silver
dollars number I'll, SIS SCI. The cash
balance in the treasury against which
there : no liability Is s7z-5O2, 4S9. -.
The steamer "Martha's Vineyard. t"
with about four hundred twenty pas.en-
zers, ran a-hore near Nobska lIght, Woods
HoIl, the 18th nit. The passengers we're
nearly all members % New Bedford Bap-
tIst Sunday school, On an excursion 70
Falmouth Knights, eight miles from
Woods HOlL The steamer brought 10
with . sudden jar twenty minutes after
leaving the Heights about three-fOuTths
81 a mile from the shore, and a scene Of
confusion ensued- Among the passengers
were large number u women and chill
dren- A rBsh Nas made Tor the life pre-
servers Of which there Has al ample sup
ply and in short time everybody vac
equipped with one. The passengers we're
taken % ia the Two DOats belonging "
the steamer, assisted ~ others from the
shore. On landing they were taken by
special train. " their homes